Description

1.
5191 NORTH STREET
(East Side)

Wykes Court

SY 4693 2/78 28.ll.50.

II CV

2.
Early or mid C19. The owner's or managers house of the ropeworks at No 32
Rax Lane, to which it is attached. Stucco. Low pitch hipped slate roof,
wide eaves with brackets. 2 storeys. 5 ranges of sashes with glazing bars,
shutters to 1st floor. Central doorway with fanlight in 3-centred arched opening,
moulded archivolt and moulded roundels to impost blocks.
Extension to east. Red brick. 3 storeys and parapet, which rises in centre
to form a pediment with oculus in tympanum. Bands, 1 range of sashes with
glazing bars. Door with steep pointed arch.

Wykes Court, its garden wall. Conservative Club, and former stables south of
Conservative Club form a group with Rax, Garden wall to Rax, The Grove, Garden wall
to the Grove, No 32 and its outhouses, Gatehouse of No 32 and its wall, Outhouses
to the south of Wykes Court garden, Nos l3, l5, 19 and 31, Rax lane, and with Nos 17
and 19 Downes Street.

Listing NGR: SY4657793089

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647683

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